... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last | Contents | Next Issue 32 Is Libya still the prime suspect for the murder of WPC Fletcher?Peter Smith The killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in public view and for no apparent reason remains one of the most notorious murders of recent decades. For sixteen years there have been few signs of any serious attempts to locate and bring to justice the perpetrator of this outrage. Finally, this April, in an outstanding piece of investigative journalism, a re-examination of the pathological and ballistical evidence strongly contests the official version of that tragic event in St James's Sq.( ...

... c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 38 The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted 'general responsibility' for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The Daily Mail for example, headlined their piece 'Libya finally takes blame 15 years after Yvonne died'. No one seems to have asked the obvious question: what does 'general responsibility ...

... of our readers had the wit to send our reference to Keston to the BBC, asking for comments. The editor of the Radio 4 programme 'Sunday' replied that 'It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we are doing what we can to look into them. ' The Workers' Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya In The Bulletin, the US weekly paper of the Workers' League, July 20 edition, there is an exchange of letters between Ken Livingstone MP and the leaders of two of the fragments (there are now apparently 9, in all) from the WRP's split of 85/86. Livingstone had claimed at a meeting on March ...

... that the culprit is not the one still portrayed by many in a position to know differently as 'the Lockerbie bomber'. Ten days after the Maid of the Seas disintegrated early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express's front page identified 'The Bomb Carrier' from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and Galloway force. No mention of al- Megrahi and Libya then either. In those early days there were repeated stories about warnings to passengers – some very specific – being given ahead of ...

... told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was 'the mad dictator', some time funder of the IRA and head of the regime which organised the Lockerbie bombing. But the great engine of state trundles on and things change. Libya 'accepted responsibility' for the Lockerbie bombing (while continuing to deny that they had done it), offered compensation to the victims' families, gave up their nuclear ambitions (whatever that amounted to), to emerge, born again, free of sanctions, as a responsible, respectable member of the international community, bla bla bla ...

... Her Majesty's secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that 'America has no friends, only interests'; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like 'perfidious Albion' for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition has ever been better illustrated than by this country's foreign policy towards Libya in the past 20 years or so. Former MI5 officer David Shayler reported that in 1996 MI6 had paid £100,000 to a Libyan Islamist group for the assassination of Colonel Gadaffi; and, although denied by the British formal foreign policy apparatus, a great deal of evidence ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 28 In Brief The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults in investigative history. Let one example suffice: his own prime suspect throughout his Sunday Times series in 1989, Abu Talb, gets a first mention on page 174. Turning his back on his excellent earlier ...

... established the narrative by which the television portrayal of government or war was for all intents and purposes its essence. What was not seen on television – never happened. It is necessary to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuff- movie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi's murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a 'mad dog' he was following a carefully honed script. This 'mad dog' imagery – that of an animal infected with rabies who can only be 'put down' – is the language of the West, the language of slaughtering Native Americans and making trophies ...

... having a career as a mainstream journalist. Currently he is writing regularly for The Consortium, Robert Parry's exemplary and pioneering reader-funded website.11 Recommended. Close but no cigar A s opening paragraphs go, the one which begins the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report on the UK's role in the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya is a belter (the emphasis is mine): 'In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the 9 For example: the claims that no plane hit the Pentagon; that there were no planes at all, they were holograms; that the buildings were destroyed by nukes in the basements; that the buildings were destroyed ...